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Screening of 'Resistance' (1976) by Ken McMullen | Introduction And Afterwords
Screening of 'Resistance' (1976) by Ken McMullen | Introduction And Afterwords
Sunday 26 March
Screening of 'Resistance' (1976, 90 minutes) by Ken McMullen, who will introduce the film along with Stuart Brisley. Resistance uses an assembly of film fragments and a psychodrama, partly overseen by a psychiatrist, to examine the sociological and psychological roots of resistance to military occupation. It includes a soundtrack by Brian Eno, and experimental performances by Stuart Brisley and Marc Camille Chaimowicz, among others.
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Presented as part of the exhibition 'This Way Out of England: Gallery House in Retrospect' at Raven Row
Gallery House was one of London’s most influential and extraordinary art spaces in the 1970s, directed by Sigi Krauss with assistant director Rosetta Brooks. For only sixteen months in 1972-73, in a vacant mansion provided by the German government next to the German Institute in South Kensington, Gallery House hosted exhibitions, residencies, performances and events as well as pioneering ‘expanded cinema’ and much new film and video work. For many of the featured artists Gallery House would prove a formative experience.
Gallery House favoured heterogeneity, colliding the multiplicity of forms and styles co-existing at the time, from performance and experimental cinema to cybernetic, social and conceptual practices. Ultimately, the radical nature of Gallery House’s programme led to its abrupt and contested closure by the German Institute.
'This Way Out of England' seeks to emulate the spirit of Gallery House by inviting a number of artists to rethink their original interventions in the space. The episodic nature of this project acknowledges the impossibility of framing what was an ephemeral experiment. The project is curated by Antony Hudek and Alex Sainsbury.
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Image: John Latham, Big Breather, Gallery House, 1973
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Sunday 26 March
Screening of 'Resistance' (1976, 90 minutes) by Ken McMullen, who will introduce the film along with Stuart Brisley. Resistance uses an assembly of film fragments and a psychodrama, partly overseen by a psychiatrist, to examine the sociological and psychological roots of resistance to military occupation. It includes a soundtrack by Brian Eno, and experimental performances by Stuart Brisley and Marc Camille Chaimowicz, among others.
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Presented as part of the exhibition 'This Way Out of England: Gallery House in Retrospect' at Raven Row
Gallery House was one of London’s most influential and extraordinary art spaces in the 1970s, directed by Sigi Krauss with assistant director Rosetta Brooks. For only sixteen months in 1972-73, in a vacant mansion provided by the German government next to the German Institute in South Kensington, Gallery House hosted exhibitions, residencies, performances and events as well as pioneering ‘expanded cinema’ and much new film and video work. For many of the featured artists Gallery House would prove a formative experience.
Gallery House favoured heterogeneity, colliding the multiplicity of forms and styles co-existing at the time, from performance and experimental cinema to cybernetic, social and conceptual practices. Ultimately, the radical nature of Gallery House’s programme led to its abrupt and contested closure by the German Institute.
'This Way Out of England' seeks to emulate the spirit of Gallery House by inviting a number of artists to rethink their original interventions in the space. The episodic nature of this project acknowledges the impossibility of framing what was an ephemeral experiment. The project is curated by Antony Hudek and Alex Sainsbury.
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Image: John Latham, Big Breather, Gallery House, 1973